The assistance application window is available from Dec. 17 to Jan. 15, 2026, to all families and people without children who meet the location, income and resource limits of the program.

A Whatcom County Superior Court judge on Friday approved a $13.35 million settlement of lawsuit brought on behalf of a developmentally disabled man. The plaintiff’s attorney believes it to be the ...

The state of Washington’s largest department is tasked with caring for the state’s most vulnerable residents — abused children, foster kids, mentally handicapped adults. But time and again, it has ...

PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — Prosecutors from 22 Washington state counties have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) over the agency’s public policy decision to stop ...

The Department of Social and Health Services building in Puyallup. Joshua Bessex [email protected] The Washington state Department of Social and Health Services and the state Attorney General ...

The state of Washington’s largest department is tasked with caring for the state’s most vulnerable residents — abused children, foster kids, mentally handicapped adults. But time and again, it has ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services says residents can continue accessing their food assistance benefits this month, despite national uncertainty surrounding ...

A man who says he was sexually harassed as an intern at the state Department of Social and Health Services, by the head of human resources at the time, has sued the state. Bastian McKeen, 24, filed ...